Join us to explore this super cross disciplinary project led by Fengtong Frank Ji combining developmental biology and nanorobotics - unexpected findings expected!

Thanks for an insightful thread by Jianxiong Wang 王建雄 and Melanie D. White and coverage of our work :)

Congratulations to our amazing Joana M. N. Vidigueira !

Join us and work with our brilliant Susie McLaren @susiemclaren.bsky.social on a novel, fun and potentially very impactful direction!

Recent preprints:

Interactions between disordered region sequences that lead to phase separation and demixing
arxiv.org/abs/2401.07826

Force and cell flow from nematics arxiv.org/abs/2402.16151

New patterns in the vertebral formula
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Cool movies! Looking forward to reading the work

Collaboration on a really interesting problem - modeling by Kings et al on the highly elaborated bone structures in seals’ nose xionglab.org/post/labyrinth…

Excited to share another recent piece from our lab - led by Joana M. N. Vidigueira, Changqing and Chris, with help from Ala. We use the newly developed TiFM and modeling to understand how elongation speed is controlled xionglab.org/post/cruise-co…

Our latest work on neural tube morphogenesis led by brilliant Susie McLaren @susiemclaren.bsky.social , in collaboration with Shilei Xue FranzeLab 🇺🇦 Edouard Hannezo and Alex - read the summary on Susie’s tweetorial !

🐥 Want to learn amazing chick embryology techniques, use the latest transgenic chicken lines, and mingle with leading chicken embryology experts from around the world?
If so, then join us at the EGGED workshop this summer in Edinburgh!! 🐣 🧬 🔬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
meetings.embo.org/event/24-egged

Stunning movie of zebrafish spinal cord morphogenesis from our very own Chia-Teng Chang featured on Zebrafish Rock! What a beautiful (and mysterious) process!

What are lumens and how do forces control tissue form and fate through lumen size?

Join me, Dhiraj Indana, in this short thread to explore this question through some fascinating papers.

We are delighted to welcome our new Director, Ben Simons. A PI at Gurdon Institute since 2011, Ben is a Royal Society EP Abraham Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Herchel Smith Chair in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. He is…

📢 Theory of Living Matter Group is back with a stellar line up of online and hybrid talks for Lent Term 2024!! 🤩 Wednesdays - 16:00 UK time 📢

Please RT and subscribe 📧 to attend our online talks: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscrib…

Finally, plasmids for tinkering with this system will be on Addgene shortly. If you're excited about this technology or just enjoy psychedelia, grab these reagents and do a transfection--within 24 hours you'll be tripping. We're so excited to see where imagination will take you!

At last we are at the beginning! Linking natural history and natural philosophy, an evolutionary approach to developmental questions starts with the ... egg (which did come before the chick!): tinyurl.com/2cdtjrkm

But what about intermediate filaments?

This question is often in my head when I see a talk about cell mechanics focused on actin or microtubules.

I am Tom Golde and today I will give you a short overview about the role of intermediate filaments (IF) in #EpithelialMechanics

📢New SciArt profile: Lauren Moon

Meet Lauren Lauren Moon, a PhD student in developmental biology who enjoys creating science-themed calligraphy and hand-painted ceramic plates 🖌🎨

➡thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile…

Many happy returns to our Sir John Gurdon on his 90th birthday 🎉

This week, many members of the Simons and Xiong labs are at the Isaac Newton Institute for the workshop on 'Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development' #NewtonSPL2023 , with Ben Simons chairing the last session. Here are a few of them 👋